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241 | Why would God do that? | Gen 2:7 | GeorJoy | 89521 | ||
IT IS NOT HIS WILL THAT ANYONE SHOULD PERRISH. (GNB) Jer 18:5 Then the LORD said to me, 6 "Don't I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter's hands. Isa 29:16 They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, "You didn't make me"? Or can it say, "You don't know what you are doing"? YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO ASK. Isa 45:9 Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker, a pot that is like all the others? Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing? Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill? However, finding the answer you desire may more be a little difficult. I reciently read in a good commentary, the clossest thing I have ever seen to being a good answer to your question. The only problem is that I can't remember what topic I was researching or which commentary ity was. I think it may have been predestination that I was researching. This topic concerns me as much as yours does you. In actuality, they are one in the same. HERE IS YOUR ANSWER... Whether or not you can or will accept it is up to you. GOD KNEW BEFORE HE CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH THAT YOU AND I WOULD BE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, DOING JUST WHAT WE ARE DOING AT THIS VERY MOMENT. LIKEWISE HE KNEW WHAT YOUR DECISION AND MINE WOULD BE AS TO THE ACCEPTANCE OF HIS SON AND HIS WORD. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DECISION IS GOING TO BE? If you don't. I would suggest you figure it out. For no one can do it for you... I pray you will understand what has been given me to give you. If you don't, perhaps your time is not yet. Don't let it worry you. Continue your search. Continue to pray. Continue to ask. For our Lord has appointed a time for EVERYTHING. Even ones salvation. IT IS NOT HIS WILL THAT ANYONE SHOULD PERRISH. Praise His loving name! George |
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242 | Searching for the truth | 1 Thess 4:17 | GeorJoy | 89515 | ||
Death of the body is not what this scripture refers to. If it were, once you died, the penalty for your sins would be paid. The death the scripture refers to here is "Eternal Damnation in the lake of fire." If I am not badly mistaken, this is also refered to as the second death. George |
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243 | Are we Stupid or Lazy? Our Soul at stak | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89510 | ||
Thanks Hank Without a doubt, we are headed in the same direction. Some get to their destination by walking, others run, still others may go by bicycle, car, plane or train. (I want a big BUS, so I can take as many with me as I can. I want them on the fenders, the roof and hood.) Though our means may differ, our goal is the same. When Christian paths collide, maturity in Christ will clear the traffic jam. Having originated this post, I have truly learned a lesson. Although I would never intentionally point a finger at anyone (Mat 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. :2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged ,) I often have a hard time conveying the knowledge and messages I have gleaned without stepping on toes and appearing overly authoritative. However, I contend that my authority is the WORD OF GOD. I am not the originator. I am simply a messenger. I will not take from or add to what the originator has sent. And… On top of this thorn, I tend to talk in parables. I once considered these two traits as faults, or thorns. I am no longer sure that they are either. As I quoted somewhere in this thread, I once read, “a parable shows the (spiritual) responsiveness of the hearer.) This saying has helped me greatly. God Bless you and yours George |
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244 | Are we Stupid or Lazy? Our Soul at stak | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89507 | ||
Prasie The Lord! Hank, I'd have to say that this statement proves without a doubt which side of the fine line between judgement and discernment you are on. However, you may now be open to being branded judgemental and degrading the need and usefulness of seminaries. THanks for your comment, and God Bless George |
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245 | Putting 2 and 2 together | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89504 | ||
Ed "or a reprobate mine." Perhaps you should change your screen name to one a little more discriptive of your gift. Once again, you have touched on one of the points of my original post. For some reason, I hear a little voice within saying that there are those who will read these posts who will say; "Are these guys crazy!? What are they talking about!?" Already there is a spirit of argument herein, who would argue, yet in its arguing it says precisely what it argues against. "Those who see (or read,) but do not see." "Those who hear (or read,) but do not hear." George |
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246 | Are we Stupid or Lazy? Our Soul at stak | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89501 | ||
Thanks for yout input. George |
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247 | Putting 2 and 2 together | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89440 | ||
Thanks for the info Ed I'm just starting to get used to the forum, and I must say, it is more than a little confising. Or perhaps I'm just getting old (which I am proud of, cuz everyone don't have that opporitunity.) Ed, concerning your metting with the room full of pastors; am I so wrong when it makes me seeth with anger when I hear of such atrocious words coming from the mouth someone, in particular a man of God, (I want to say "a (So called) man of God,) one who is intrusted with His living word? George |
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248 | You took a wrong turn somewhere.. | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89434 | ||
Justme I just finished reading your user info. I admire and applaud your activity. My prayers will be with you and yours concerning your ailment and your ministries. I pray our Lord judges you more mercifully than you have me. By the way, I haven't CALLED Christians or anyone else stupid or lazy herein. I challenge you or anyone else to prove otherwise. If I did, its here with my signature. If not... Well I wouldn't expect an appology. Just a brotherly Thank you would be more than expected. In case it evaded your notice, I only asked the question "Are you stupid?" and "Or are you simply Lazy?" I labeled the post "Are we Stupid or Lazy? Our Soul at stake," and in my response to MotherSuperior, I corrected the "yous" with "we's. I should wonder why my post would hurt anyone quiet so bad as it has yourself. Your insistance on continuing your arguing is defeating the purpose. With all due respect to you and your thoughts, my answers to your accusations and insinuations will thus be herewith ceased, May God bless, protect, watch over and be with you and yours. Respectfully George |
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249 | You took a wrong turn somewhere.. | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89431 | ||
What can I say? I made no assunptions. Only an observance which is not unique to this or any other forum. You assume that you have read what you have not read. Have you re-read as I suggested? God Bless George |
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250 | Are we Stupid or Lazy? Our Soul at stak | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89429 | ||
Thanks for your input Hank. So true. So true. ------ Where the Word is concerned, NOT "Doing oneselves an injustice" is just my point. ------ But if one refuses the initiative; other than hearing the originator, he is as likely as not to get a watered down or poluted version. J. Vernon McGee once said that "it is all right for one to graze in others pastures, but one should always give his own milk." I hope we're on the same track. George |
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251 | Are we Stupid or Lazy? Our Soul at stak | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89418 | ||
This is MEAT and NOT intended for those on milk. Is not sin a "human nature thing?" Does not man create the culture around him? As for those who "will not seek truth for themselves," I have only pity, and would shake the dust from my feet where they are concerned. As for the many who have not; They have not because they ask not; They ask not because of either Stupidity, Lazyness or Ignorance; All of which can be overcome, and none of which will be excusable in the day of judgement. Is it not the adults place to properly train up the children? If one is more concerned with the feelings of others and "Political correctness" than presenting the word in its virgin form, .... All I can say is that one can't please Man AND God. One has to choose to please one or the other. George |
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252 | Judgement or Discernment? | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89350 | ||
I know that our Lord foretold of those of whom you speak. That seeing, they would not see and hearing, they would not hear. My heart is so heavy for them, but they will not listen. Time and time Israel forsook God. Time and time again,they repented. Time and time again, God forgave them. So it is today. But time is not on our side. We, the individual are not as the generations of a Nation. As a flower withers, so do we. As a raging fire through a forest hardens an old tree stump each time it passes, so does the word of God to our heart each time it passes through unaccepted. Thanks EdB George |
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253 | Commentary on Psalm 19 | Ps 19:1 | GeorJoy | 89342 | ||
I stand corrected. George |
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254 | Commentary on Psalm 19 | Ps 19:1 | GeorJoy | 89341 | ||
I stand corrected. George |
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255 | Judgement or Discernment? | Rom 14:12 | GeorJoy | 89340 | ||
So true. Thank you EdB. It is refreshing to see that there is at least one who has responded thus far who is "spiritually receptive." Namely yourself. I would add that when people don't like the answer one gives, not only do they accuse you, but they continue to ask till they receive the answer they desire, whis is more often than not, contrary to the word of God. LORD HAVE MERCY on them, and giver of the "desired" answer... For even though they may have recieved instructions contrary to Gods word, THEY WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. But much more so will the giver. " But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.Mat 18:6 George |
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256 | Commentary on Psalm 19 | Ps 19:1 | GeorJoy | 89313 | ||
Now the wordy version from Mathew Henry 2 of 3 or 4 If you're interested in the other 2 or 3 pages, please respond to this note with your eMail address. I will be glad to send it. I just don't feel right making such large posts. George |
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257 | Commentary on Psalm 19 | Ps 19:1 | GeorJoy | 89312 | ||
Now the wordy version from Mathew Henry 2 of 3 or 4 III. The scope of it. It is manifestly intended, 1. To assist the exercises of natural religion, and to kindle in the souls of men those devout affections which we owe to God as our Creator, owner, ruler, and benefactor. The book of Job helps to prove our first principles of the divine perfections and providence; but this helps to improve them in prayers and praises, and professions of desire towards him, dependence on him, and an entire devotedness and resignation to him. Other parts of scripture show that God is infinitely above man, and his sovereign Lord; but this shows us that he may, notwithstanding, be conversed with by us sinful worms of the earth; and there are ways in which, if it be not our own fault, we may keep up communion with him in all the various conditions of human life. 2. To advance the excellencies of revealed religion, and in the most pleasing powerful manner to recommend it to the world. There is indeed little or nothing of the ceremonial law in all the book of Psalms. Though sacrifice and offering were yet to continue many ages, yet they are here represented as things which God did not desire (Psa_40:6, Psa_51:16), as things comparatively little, and which in time were to vanish away. But the word and law of God, those parts of it which are moral and of perpetual obligation are here all along magnified and made honourable, nowhere more. And Christ, the crown and centre of revealed religion, the foundation, corner, and top-stone, of that blessed building, is here clearly spoken of in type and prophecy, his sufferings and the glory that should follow, and the kingdom that he should set up in the world, in which God's covenant with David, concerning his kingdom, was to have its accomplishment. What a high value does this book put upon the word of God, his statutes and judgments, his covenant and the great and precious promises of it; and how does it recommend them to us as our guide and stay, and our heritage for ever! IV. The use of it. All scripture, being given by inspiration of God, is profitable to convey divine light into our understandings; but this book is of singular use with that to convey divine life and power, and a holy warmth, into our affections. There is no one book of scripture that is more helpful to the devotions of the saints than this, and it has been so in all ages of the church, ever since it was written and the several parts of it were delivered to the chief musician for the service of the church. 1. It is of use to be sung. Further than David's psalms we may go, but we need not, for hymns and spiritual songs. What the rules of the Hebrew metre were even the learned are not certain. But these psalms ought to be rendered according to the metre of every language, at least so as that they may be sung for the edification of the church. And methinks it is a great comfort to us, when we are singing David's psalms, that we are offering the very same praises to God that were offered to him in the days of David and the other godly kings of Judah. So rich, so well made, are these divine poems, that they can never be exhausted, can never be worn thread-bare. 2. It is of use to be read and opened by the ministers of Christ, as containing great and excellent truths, and rules concerning good and evil. Our Lord Jesus expounded the psalms to his disciples, the gospel psalms, and opened their understandings (for he had the key of David) to understand them, Luk_24:44. 3. It is of use to be read and meditated upon by all good people. It is a full fountain, out of which we may all be drawing water with joy |
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258 | Commentary on Psalm 19 | Ps 19:1 | GeorJoy | 89311 | ||
Now the wordy version from Mathew Henry 1 of 3 or 4 Psalms - Psalms - An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Testament; nay, so much is there in it of Christ and his gospel, as well as of God and his law, that it had been called the abstract, or summary, of both Testaments. The History of Israel, which we were long upon, let us to camps and council-boards, and there entertained and instructed us in the knowledge of God. The book of Job brought us into the schools, and treated us with profitable disputations concerning God and his providence. But this book brings us into the sanctuary, draws us off from converse with men, with the politicians, philosophers, or disputers of this world, and directs us into communion with God, by solacing and reposing our souls in him, lifting up and letting out our hearts towards him. Thus may we be in the mount with God; and we understand not our interests if we say not, It is good to be here. Let us consider, I. The title of this book. It is called, 1. The Psalms; under that title it is referred to, Luk_24:44. The Hebrew calls it Tehillim, which properly signifies Psalms of praise, because many of them are such; but Psalms is a more general word, meaning all metrical compositions fitted to be sung, which may as well be historical, doctrinal, or supplicatory, as laudatory. Though singing be properly the voice of joy, yet the intention of songs is of a much greater latitude, to assist the memory, and both to express and to excite all the other affections as well as this of joy. The priests had a mournful muse as well as joyful ones; and the divine institution of singing psalms is thus largely intended; for we are directed not only to praise God, but to teach and admonish ourselves and one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, Col_3:16. 2. It is called the Book of Psalms; so it is quoted by St. Peter, Act_1:20. It is a collection of psalms, of all the psalms that were divinely inspired, which, though composed at several times and upon several occasions, are here put together without any reference to or dependence upon one another; thus they were preserved from being scattered and lost, and were in so much greater readiness for the service of the church. See what a good master we serve, and what pleasantness there is in wisdom's ways, when we are not only commanded to sing at our work, and have cause enough given us to do so, but have words also put in our mouths and songs prepared to our hands. II. The author of this book. It is, no doubt, derived originally from the blessed Spirit. They are spiritual songs, words which the Holy Ghost taught. The penman of most of them was David the son of Jesse, who is therefore called the sweet psalmist of Israel, 2Sa_23:1. Some that have not his name in their titles yet are expressly ascribed to him elsewhere, as Psa_2:1-12 (Act_4:25) and Psa_96:1-13 and 105 (1 Chr. 16). One psalm is expressly said to be the prayer of Moses (Ps. 90); and that some of the psalms were penned by Asaph is intimated, 2Ch_29:30, where they are said to praise the Lord in the words of David and Asaph, who is there called a seer or prophet. Some of the psalms seem to have been penned long after, as Psa_137:1-9, at the time of the captivity in Babylon; but the far greater part of them were certainly penned by David himself, whose genius lay towards poetry and music, and who was raised up, qualified, and animated, for the establishing of the ordinance of singing psalms in the church of God, as Moses and Aaron were, in their day, for the settling of the ordinances of sacrifice; theirs is superseded, but his remains, and will to the end of time, when it shall be swallowed up in the songs of eternity. Herein David was a type of Christ, who descended from him, not from Moses, because he came to take away sacrifice (the family of Moses was soon lost and extinct), but to establish and perpetuate joy and praise; for of the family of David in Christ there shall be no end. |
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259 | Commentary on Psalm 19 | Ps 19:1 | GeorJoy | 89310 | ||
From Matthew Henrys Concise Version Psalms - David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were written by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; and no part of the Old Testament is more frequently quoted or referred to in the New. Every psalm either points directly to Christ, in his person, his character, and offices; or may lead the believer's thoughts to Him. And the psalms are the language of the believer's heart, whether mourning for sin, thirsting after God, or rejoicing in Him. Whether burdened with affliction, struggling with temptation, or triumphing in the hope or enjoyment of deliverance; whether admiring the Divine perfections, thanking God for his mercies, mediating on his truths, or delighting in his service; they form a Divinely appointed standard of experience, by which we may judge ourselves. Their value, in this view, is very great, and the use of them will increase with the growth of the power of true religion in the heart. By the psalmist's expressions, the Spirit helps us to pray. If we make the psalms familiar to us, whatever we have to ask at the throne of grace, by way of confession, petition, or thanksgiving, we may be assisted from thence. Whatever devout affection is working in us, holy desire or hope, sorrow or joy, we may here find words to clothe it; sound speech which cannot be condemned. In the language of this Divine book, the prayers and praises of the church have been offered up to the throne of grace from age to age. ************************************** George |
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260 | Is God hand so short that he cannot lead | Col 2:21 | GeorJoy | 89309 | ||
Tim Let the "whole word" be your guide. If you continue in your studies, you will recieve answers to questions that you have not even asked yet. Read the word from cover to cover and then reread it. Be careful of anything that can not be backed up by the word. If it is not backed up by scripture, it is opinion. And this statement can be backed this statement up by scripture. George |
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